![]() ![]() auto-hiding scrollbars that only appear when they are being used, and.Launchpad (similar to the home screen of iOS devices),.easily-navigable display of installed applications,.Lion marks a dramatic change in the appearance of the graphical user interface or GUI from the original icon- folder appearance first created by the engineers at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) to a more iOS or iPhone / iPad interface. To perform multiple installs, the easiest way according to OSX Daily is to download it first, plug an external disk in and copy it (before installing it) and then copy it to other computers. The entire 4 Gb OS is installed over the internet and if done right you can download one version and use it on multiple devices. He downloaded 116 apps total, but several apps failed to download and needed to reboot.”īut there is good news too, including the ability to sync data across a variety of Apple products with iCloud. According to “the issue is related to Apple’s new iCloud feature that allows iTunes to download previous purchases. However, when he contacted both Apple and PayPal, each pointed the finger of blame at the other. His PayPal account was then charged an additional 121 times, for a grand total of $3,878.40. MacRumors reports that John Christman purchased OS X Lion on July 23, and paid $31.79 after sales tax. For information about known issues with Lion, go to the Apple, Microsoft, and CultofMac Lion support pages.Īnother issue to be aware of is the multiple fees some people have been charged for the upgrade. However, if you’re running older applications (older versions of Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite and Quicken 2007) they will not work with Mac OS X Lion. ![]() If you have upgraded your software within the last few years, then you’re probably fine because the newer programs have been rewritten to work natively on the Macs using the Intel CPUs. For example, at the top of the Adobe list is this: “Java Runtime needs to be installed manually, otherwise applications may behave inconsistently.” And there are also some issues reported by manufacturers – the most important issue is from Adobe. The bad news is the loss of Rosetta, which is emulation software that allowed users to run older software (PowerPC written applications) on Intel Macs. Written by Howard Fenton, Senior Technology Consultant at NAPLĭid you hear about the one million downloads of the latest Mac operating system Lion on the first day? Now that some time has passed, we can say that upgrading to Lion has been mostly a success but there are some issues to be aware of.
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